§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the locations of each of the pilot local energy advice centres set up under the auspices of the Energy Saving Trust Ltd., to which his Department has given support; and if he will make a statement on how many further pilot centres are proposed.
§ Mr. Robert B. JonesThe locations are listed at the end of the answer.
It is our policy to set up more pilot centres as and when suitable proposals are made to the Energy Saving trust and sufficient matching funding has been secured. Currently there are four centres which are close to being established—they are as follows: 293W
Belfast, which is due to start work on 30 January;Wirral, which is expecting to start work shortly; andOrkney and Western Isles, which are hoped to be operational in the near future, once discussions about the funding arrangements have been resolved. The Energy Saving trust offered both £10,000 each in grant aid in the autumn and are waiting for the matching funding to be provided so that the two centres can be launched.Locations of Local Energy Advice Centres
- Aberdeen
- Belfast-operational from 30 January 1995
- Birmingham
- Black Country-office in West Bromwich
- Bristol
- Cardiff
- Coventry
- Croydon
- Dundee
- Glasgow
- Greenwich
- Highland-Inverness
- Islington
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lewisham
- Lothian and Edinburgh-Edinburgh
- Middlesborough
- Oxford
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Ryedale-Malton
- Shetland-Foula
- South London-closed down in October 1994.
- Strathclyde-Glasgow
- Swansea
- Tayside-Dundee
- Telford
- Tyneside-Newcastle
- West Wales-Newport